by Collin Anderson at The Washington Free Beacon
A liberal dark money group bankrolled by a foreign billionaire gave millions of dollars to failed gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams’s effort to overhaul America’s voting laws.
Sacramento-based dark money group Fund for a Better Future in 2020 gave more than $3 million to Abrams’s Fair Fight Action, its tax forms show. Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss is by far Fund for a Better Future’s top donor—his advocacy group, Berger Action Fund, gave the dark money group more than $45 million from 2016 to 2020.
The sizable contribution marks yet another attempt from Wyss to meddle in America’s elections. Abrams’s Fair Fight has spent big on ads urging Congress to pass the For the People Act, Democrats’ massive election overhaul bill that would give the federal government unprecedented power to control American voting. Wyss has also contributed millions of dollars to redraw electoral maps in Democrats’ favor and lobby for the Biden administration’s alternative energy initiatives.
Fund for a Better Future’s generous support of Fair Fight also gives Wyss a back-door way to earn favor and influence with Abrams, who is running for governor of Georgia against Republican incumbent Brian Kemp. Foreign nationals cannot contribute to U.S. political candidates but can fund nonprofit organizations. Wyss in 2014 revealed he only carries a Swiss passport and does not have a U.S. green card. In a 2021 SEC filing, Wyss called himself a “citizen of Switzerland.”
At least one watchdog group believes…
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